Garment-stay.



Patenfpd nec. 25, lso.

No. 664,441.' q A C. B. A; SMITH.

GARMENT STAY.

(Application led Apr. 14, 1900,) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARA B. A. SMITH, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

GARMENT-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,441, dated December 25, 1900.

Application filed April 14, 1900. Serial No. 12,877. (No model.) i

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARA B. A. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Stay Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a metal garmentstay :fastener having pliable penetrating fastening-prongs and adapted to be used in connection with theV bones or stiffeners of garments. l

Myimprovement consists in a garment-stay fastener constructed of a single strip of metal having pointed ends providing pliable penetrating fastening prongs, a continuous straight edge at one side, and a series of inclined slits at the other side providing a series of pliable penetrating fastening-prongs having straight outer sides and inclined inner sides and which when bent into using position leave acute-angular recesses alternating with the separated parts of the straight edge of the strip, the prongs being adapted to penetrate either the material or fabric of the garment adjacent or contiguous to the bone or stiffener thereof or insertible in the bone or stiffener itself, and then bent in desired direction on the other side for securing it to the part adjacent or contiguous to the bone or stiifener or to the bone or stiffener itself, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a detail front view showing a pair of my garment-stay fasteners applied to a garment adjacent to the bone or stiifener casing or pocket. Fig. 2 is a detail rear view thereof. Fig. 3 isa detail perspective view of the end parts of a pair of my garment-stay fasteners. Fig. 4 is a detail front View showing my garment-stay fastener having its pliable prongs extending through perforations in the bone or stiener. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view looking at the rear side. Fig. 6 is a detail longitudinal section of the same on the line 6 6, Fig. 4.-. Fig. 7 is a detail front View of the blank for the principal form of i my garment-stay fastener, in which the prongs extend in one direction from the edge thereof. Fig. 8 is a similar view in which the prongs project in opposite directions alternately from the edge thereof.

I show my garment-stay fastener applied to parts of a dress-Waist, in which 1 represents pieces of fabric or material, and 2 the linings thereof, folded to form edges l:t and 2a, seamed together at the meeting edges of their folds. 3 is an ordinary bone or stiener, of whalebone, metal, wood, or other analogous material suitable for the purpose, which may be located in the usual casing or pocket 4, provided for the purpose of concealing the bone or stiffener 3, and in the present instance placed behind a seam of the garment. To avoid the necessity of sewing the casing or pocket to the garment or to enable the casing or pocket to be dispensed with are the principal objects of my invention.

In carrying out my invention I take a narrow strip of metal 5, having contiguous straight parallel edges, and cut a series of inclined slits 6 along one edge thereof to produce a series of pliable penetrating fastening-prongs 7, formed with straight outer sides and inclined inner sides, leaving acute-angular recesses in the cut edge between the separated parts of the straight edge. The prongs'are bent from the body of the strip at right angles thereto `to provide insertible fastenings, which are adapted to penetrate the fabric or material or both the bone or stiener and the fabric or material. The ends of the strip are also cut to produce pliable penetrating fasteningprongs 8, which extend in line with the strip, .which are also bent at right angles to the body to produce insertible fastenings. The strip thus formed provides a garment-stay fastener which may be secured along the edge of a bone or stift'ener casing or pocket or on the bone or stifener itself. For fastening the bone or stiener casing or pocket in place on the garment, as shown in Figs. l and 2, I place the casing or pocket on the inside of the garment, preferably over the IOO and fabric or material on one side of the seam with thel pronged edge of the strip t0- ward the bone or stiifener casing or pocket and turn the prongs down in desired direction. I then take another garment-stay fastener and apply it in a similar manner to the other edge of the bone 0r stiener easing or pocket on the other side of the seam with the pronged edge of the strip facing the pronged edge of the outer strip, thus leaving the con; tinuous straight edgeson the outer side.

The hone or stiffenerl may he inserted in the casing' or pocket either before or after the casing or pocket is attached.

If it is desired to-dispense with the bone or stiffener casing 0r pocket and also with one of the garment-stay fasteners, as shown in n Figs. 4, 5, and 6, I place the bone or stiener in position over the seam and apply one of my garment-stay fastenersin a central position, with the pliable prongs extending through perforations previously formed in the bone or stiffener.

Instead -of providing a series of inclined slits 6 in an edge of the metal strip, so as to extend in one direction only, as shown in Fig.

7, every alternate slit 6 may extend in the opposite direction, as shown in Fig. 8.

Having thus described my invention, the following lis what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A garment-stay fastener constructed of a strip of metal having a series of inclined slits at an edge thereof providing a series of pliable penetrating fastening-prongs having straight outer sides and inclined inner sides, leaving acute-angular recesses in the slitted edge alternating with the separated parts of the straight edge.

2. A garment-stay fastener constructed of a strip of metal having a series of slits at an edge thereof providingaseries of pliable penetrating fastening prongs having straight outer sides and inclined inner sides, leaving acute angular recesses in the slitted edge alternating with the separated parts of the straight edge and the pointed ends providing pliable penetrating fastening-prongs.

CLARA B. A. SMITH.

Witnesses:

C. K. MARSHALL, KENNETH A. KERR. 

